[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 3487 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3487

   To reauthorize the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 1996

  Mr. Saxton (for himself and Mr. Farr of California) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reauthorize the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Marine Sanctuaries 
Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES ACT.

    Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an 
amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal 
of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to 
be made to a section or other provision of National Marine Sanctuaries 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1431-1445a).

SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES ACT.

    Section 313 (16 U.S.C. 1444) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 313. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 
out this title--
            ``(1) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;
            ``(2) $13,500,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
            ``(3) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.''.

SEC. 4. MANAGEMENT, RECOVERY, AND PRESERVATION PLAN FOR U.S.S. MONITOR.

    The Secretary of Commerce shall, on or before May 1, 1997, prepare 
and submit to the Committee on Resources of the House of 
Representatives a long-range, comprehensive plan for the management, 
stabilization, preservation, and recovery of artifacts and materials of 
the United States ship Monitor.

SEC. 5. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF CERTAIN ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS.

    Section 315(e)(3) (16 U.S.C. 1445a(e)(3)) is amended by inserting 
before the period at the end the following: ``, except that in the case 
of a meeting of an Advisory Council established to provide assistance 
regarding any individual national marine sanctuary the notice is not 
required to be published in the Federal Register.''.

SEC. 6. ENHANCING SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES.

    Section 316 (16 U.S.C. 1445 note) is redesignated as section 319, 
and the following new section is inserted after section 315:

``SEC. 316. ENHANCING SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES.

    ``(a) Authorities.--The Secretary may--
            ``(1) create, adopt, and publish in the Federal Register a 
        symbol for the national marine sanctuary program or for any 
        individual national marine sanctuary (or both);
            ``(2) solicit persons to be designated as official sponsors 
        of the national marine sanctuary program or of individual 
        national marine sanctuaries;
            ``(3) designate persons as official sponsors of the 
        national marine sanctuary program or of individual sanctuaries;
            ``(4) authorize the manufacture, reproduction, or use of a 
        symbol published under paragraph (1), by appropriate persons 
        designated as sponsors of the national marine sanctuary program 
        or of any individual national marine sanctuary, as applicable;
            ``(5) establish and collect fees for manufacture, 
        reproduction, or use of symbols published under paragraph (1), 
        in the form of monetary payments or in-kind contributions; and
            ``(6) create, market, and sell products to promote the 
        national marine sanctuary program or any individual national 
        marine sanctuary, and enter into exclusive or nonexclusive 
        agreements authorizing persons to create, market, or sell such 
        products.
    ``(b) Contract Authority.--The Secretary may contract with any 
person for the creation of symbols or the solicitation of official 
sponsors under subsection (a).
    ``(c) Restrictions.--The Secretary shall restrict the use of 
symbols published under subsection (a) and the designation of official 
sponsors of the national marine sanctuary program or of any individual 
national marine sanctuary, to ensure compatibility of a use or 
designation with the purposes and policies of this title.
    ``(d) Property of the United States.--Any symbol which is adopted 
and published in the Federal Register by the Secretary under subsection 
(a) is deemed to be the property of the United States.
    ``(e) Prohibited Activities.--It is unlawful--
            ``(1) for any person who is an official sponsor designated 
        by the Secretary under subsection (a) to influence or seek to 
        influence any decision by the Secretary or any other Federal 
        official related to the designation or management of a national 
        marine sanctuary, except to the extent that a person who is not 
        an official sponsor may do so;
            ``(2) for any person who is not designated by the Secretary 
        under subsection (a) as an official sponsor of the national 
        marine sanctuaries program or of an individual national marine 
        sanctuary to represent himself as being such an official 
        sponsor;
            ``(3) for any person to manufacture, reproduce, or use any 
        symbol adopted and published by the Secretary under subsection 
        (a), if the person--
                    ``(A) is not an official sponsor designated by the 
                Secretary under subsection (a); or
                    ``(B) has not paid any fee established by the 
                Secretary for that manufacture, reproduction, or use; 
                or
            ``(4) to violate any regulation promulgated by the 
        Secretary under this section.
    ``(f) National Marine Sanctuaries Account.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--There is established in the general 
        fund of the Treasury a separate account, which shall be known 
        as the `National Marine Sanctuaries Program Account'. The 
        Account consists of--
                    ``(A) a national marine sanctuaries program 
                subaccount; and
                    ``(B) a subaccount for each national marine 
                sanctuary.
            ``(2) Deposits.--
                    ``(A) In general.--There shall be deposited into 
                the Account all amounts received by the United States 
                as fees under subsection (a)(5) or as proceeds of 
                products under subsection (a)(6).
                    ``(B) Crediting subaccounts.--Amounts deposited 
                into the Account as proceeds of any symbol for, or 
                product relating to, the national marine sanctuary 
                program generally shall be credited to the national 
                marine sanctuaries program subaccount. Amounts 
                deposited into the Account as fees or other proceeds of 
                any symbol for, or product relating to, an individual 
                national marine sanctuary shall be credited to the 
                subaccount for that national marine sanctuary.
            ``(3) Use.--Amounts deposited into the Account and credited 
        to the national marine sanctuaries program subaccount may be 
        used by the Secretary without further appropriation for 
        operations and activities of the national marine sanctuaries 
        program generally. Amounts deposited into the Account and 
        credited to the subaccount for an individual national marine 
        sanctuary may be used by the Secretary without further 
        appropriation for operations and activities of that 
        sanctuary.''.
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